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Ecuador ready to consider asylum for Assad

Ecuadorian authorities are prepared to consider offering political asylum to Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family, if it is filed. A statement to this effect was made by the president of the South American country Rafael Correa.

"As in the case of any other person who seeks asylum in Ecuador, we will analyze it very seriously," said the politician.

At the same time, Correa denied that the issue had already been discussed during a recent visit to Quito by Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad.